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4 id="group-conversations">
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9 Start or join a group conversation with your contacts.
11 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-02" status="stub"/>
12 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-17" status="draft"/>
13 <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-17" status="review">
15 <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-09-09" status="deferred"/>
18 <credit type="author">
19 <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
20 <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
23 <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
28 <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
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34 <title>Group conversations</title>
37 Group conversations permits you to have text conversations with more than one
38 contact at the same time.
41 To have a group conversation you need to have a registered account with either
42 Jabber or Google Talk, or a People Nearby account.
47 You can have a group conversation only with the contacts that are using the
48 same service as yours.
52 <section id="start-group-conv">
54 <title>Start a group conversation</title>
59 From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose <guiseq><gui>Room</gui><gui>Join</gui></guiseq>.
64 From the <gui>Account</gui> drop-down list, select the account you want to use
65 for the group conversation.
70 In the <gui>Server</gui> text box, type the name of server in which the conversation
74 Leave it empty if it will be on the current server.
79 In the <gui>Room</gui> text box, type the name you want to give to the conversation.
83 This will be the name of the room you are going to have a conversation. This
84 name will be publicly available for other people to join. It is not possible
85 to create a private room.
91 To invite other contacts to join the group conversation, from the
92 <gui>Contact List</gui> window, select the contact you want to invite,
93 and perform one of the following:
98 Right-click on the contact and choose <gui>Invite to chatroom</gui>.
103 Choose <guiseq><gui>Edit</gui><gui>Contact</gui><gui>Invite to chatroom</gui></guiseq>.
108 If you have more than one group conversation open, select the one you want to invite
116 <section id="join-group-conv">
118 <title>Join a group conversation</title>
123 From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, choose
124 <guiseq><gui>Room</gui><gui>Join</gui></guiseq>.
129 Expand the <gui>Room List</gui> section to see all the existing rooms.
134 Double-click on the name of a room to join it.
140 It is not possible to join all existing rooms. Some of the rooms might require a
141 password, or might be invitation only. <app>Empathy</app> does not support these
145 <!-- TODO: find out where the password protected or invitation only icons are
146 and create a table. -->